x2go client not showing gui

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system with x2goclient version 4.0.1.1 installed. When I open the client, the GUI doesn't show.

I tried erasing the local settings by running rm -rf ~/.x2go, but that didn't help. Also, when i run strace x2goclient I keep getting lines like these:

recvmsg(6, 0x7fffc069d220, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
recvmsg(6, 0x7fffc069d3f0, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
recvmsg(8, 0x7fffc069d3e0, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}], 6, 13176

What's wrong? What should I do?

P.S. also tried installing newest version from their stable and unstable repositories with no success, same thing happens.

3 Answers

SOLUTION: after upgrading the version to latest x2go repo version and installing xfce, the window appeared at the edge of the screen.

don't know why it was being drawn outside of the screen in the first place, maybe changing the desktop resolution would have revealed it too.

I had the same issue but it's gone once I install/upgrade xfce4.

Steps: Install X2Go Server:

sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

In this case I’m going to access the XFCE4 Desktop of remote Ubuntu server, so also install the Xfce4:

sudo apt-get install xfce4

Finally restart the server by running reboot command.

For me, tmux was tripping up x2go and causing it to show only a terminal. Making tmux not open every time I open a shell seemed to fix things.